Massachusetts Registry News

Driving on a suspended license can sometimes result in minimum mandatory jail time and a new 4 year habitual traffic offender revocation. Therefore, fewer people charged with this crime plead guilty and more operating after suspension cases go to trial. In order to obtain a conviction for driving while suspended, the prosecution must prove, beyond […]

Reporting for the Boston Herald, O’Ryan Johnson recently wrote about a Registry employee who was terminated yesterday for posting disparaging and inappropriate “tweets” about his co-workers, supervisors, and the members of the public who pay his salary. The Registry took swift and decisive action against the employee, once the violations were brought to the Registrar’s

Mass RMV. Inspectors along with Brockton, Massachusetts Police Officers recently conducted surprise school bus inspections. Writing for The Enterprise, Reporter Matt Stout reported that inspectors cited bus drivers for driving without the required § 7D licenses as well as other violations such as non-inspection, tire tread depth violations, overloading their vehicles, and not having a

Lawyers can sometimes use the necessity defense to get not guilty verdicts for their clients in operating after suspension cases.  The necessity defense can be claimed in cases where someone whose license is suspended has an extremely compelling need to drive, such that driving on a suspended license is the lesser of the harms. For

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court recently decided Commonwealth v. Chown, wherein the Court announced rulings which govern the legal requirement to obtain a Massachusetts driver’s license upon becoming a Mass. resident. A Barnstable Police Sergeant stopped Chown for speeding. He noticed that Chown had a valid Canadian Driver’s License and an expired Massachusetts License. If

When the Registry of Motor Vehicles intends to suspend your driver’s license and/or right to operate a motor vehicle in Massachusetts, for 3 or 7 Surchargeable Events, you will receive written notice in advance. The Registry will send the license suspension notice to you mailing address which is on file with the RMV.  If you

Massachusetts Police officers recently filed an immediate threat report and medical complaint with the Driver Control Unit of the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles in two high profile incidents. Upon receipt of such a report, the RMV may immediately and indefinitely revokes the driver’s license of the person named therein. The standard required for an

With the RMV’s facial recognition system, the Registry is uncovering false license records which were generated many years ago. If you have received a letter from the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles stating that your right to operate has been revoked indefinitely due to a comp fraud lic/id, that means that the Registry believes that

I routinely get questions regarding whether the Massachusetts RMV runs drivers license suspensions consecutively or concurrently. The answer to this common question is: it depends on the license suspension reason. Melanie’s law requires the Mass RMV to “stack” breathalyzer failure and breath test refusal suspensions against drunk driving convictions triggered by the same OUI.  Massachusetts